Samina Issa - Fall 2023
2023-11-29
Youth & Adult Literacy Rates Datasets Link
The data is a CSV from Kaggle. This dataset contains data on literacy rates for youth and adults in various regions and countries.
Growing up, many people in my community, neighborhood and family were not able to read and write. So I wanted to see the literacy rate in recent years and picked it for the project
library(dplyr): using for data manipulation
library(tidyverse): using to transform and better present data
library(ggplot2): using for data visualization and plotting charts
library(plotly): using for creating interactive web-based graphs
## Rows: 4,955
## Columns: 7
## $ index <dbl> 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, …
## $ Region <chr> "Central and Southern Asia", "Central and Southern Asi…
## $ Country <chr> "Afghanistan", "Afghanistan", "Afghanistan", "Afghanis…
## $ Year <dbl> 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, 2011, …
## $ Age <chr> "15+", "15+", "15+", "15-24", "15-24", "15-24", "25-64…
## $ Gender <chr> "female", "male", "total", "female", "male", "total", …
## $ `Literacy rate` <dbl> 0.1761206, 0.4541710, 0.3174112, 0.3211322, 0.6187907,…
## Rows: 202
## Columns: 9
## $ Country <chr> "Afghanistan", "Albania", "Algeria",…
## $ Region <chr> "SA", "ECA", "MENA", "ECA", "SSA", "…
## $ `Sub-region` <chr> NA, "EECA", NA, "WE", "ESA", NA, NA,…
## $ `Least developed countries (LDC)` <chr> "LDC", NA, NA, NA, "LDC", NA, NA, NA…
## $ `Africa sub-regions` <chr> NA, NA, "Northern Africa", NA, "Sout…
## $ `Africa region` <chr> NA, NA, "All", NA, "All", NA, NA, NA…
## $ Total <dbl> 43, 98, 81, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …
## $ Male <dbl> 55, 99, 87, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …
## $ Female <dbl> 30, 98, 75, NA, NA, NA, NA, 99, NA, …
## # A tibble: 155 × 2
## Country mean_lit_rate
## <chr> <dbl>
## 1 Ukraine 1.00
## 2 Uzbekistan 0.999
## 3 San Marino 0.999
## 4 Latvia 0.999
## 5 Estonia 0.999
## 6 Lithuania 0.998
## 7 Kazakhstan 0.997
## 8 Belarus 0.997
## 9 Russian Federation 0.997
## 10 Cuba 0.996
## # ℹ 145 more rows
## # A tibble: 155 × 2
## Country mean_lit_rate
## <chr> <dbl>
## 1 Chad 0.217
## 2 Guinea 0.259
## 3 Niger 0.278
## 4 Mali 0.308
## 5 South Sudan 0.308
## 6 Sierra Leone 0.333
## 7 Burkina Faso 0.334
## 8 Benin 0.335
## 9 Afghanistan 0.348
## 10 Central African Republic 0.371
## # ℹ 145 more rows